Mercury exposure and its effects on fertility and pregnancy outcome

G Bjørklund, S Chirumbolo, M Dadar… - Basic & clinical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Mercury (Hg), a highly toxic environmental pollutant, shows harmfulness which still
represents a big concern for human health, including hazards to fertility and pregnancy …

Mercury methylation and its accumulation in rice and paddy soil in degraded lands: A critical review

S Amin, S Khan, T Sarwar, J Nawab… - … Technology & Innovation, 2021 - Elsevier
Rice and paddies soil in the mining degraded areas are mostly contaminated with toxic
metals like mercury (Hg) Hg is a global pollutant which can change into methylmercury …

C3 and C4 plant systems respond differently to the concurrent challenges of mercuric oxide nanoparticles and future climate CO2

H AbdElgawad, YM Hassan, MO Alotaibi… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Future climate CO 2 (eCO 2) and contamination with nano-sized heavy metals (HM-
NPs) represent concurrent challenges threatening plants. The interaction between eCO 2 …

Interactive effects of mercuric oxide nanoparticles and future climate CO2 on maize plant

AM Saleh, YM Hassan, TH Habeeb, AA Alkhalaf… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2021 - Elsevier
So far, the phytotoxic hazards of nano-sized mercuric oxide (HgO-NPs) are not investigated.
Herein, the phytotoxicity of fully characterized HgO-NPs (100 mg/kg soil), prepared by …

Complex interactions between diverse mobile genetic elements drive the evolution of metal‐resistant bacterial genomes

KR Mahbub, C Chénard, S Batinovic… - Environmental …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
In this study, we compared the genomes of three metal‐resistant bacteria isolated from
mercury‐contaminated soil. We identified diverse and novel MGEs with evidence of multiple …

Predicted no-effect concentrations determination and ecological risk assessment for benzophenone-type UV filters in aquatic environment

Q Guo, D Wei, H Zhao, Y Du - Environmental Pollution, 2020 - Elsevier
Benzophenones (BPs), a group of widely used ultraviolet filters, have been frequently
detected out in multiple environment matrices even in organism bodies. Although a variety of …

Long-lasting effect of mercury contamination on the soil microbiota and its co-selection of antibiotic resistance

KR Mahbub, WL King, N Siboni, VK Nguyen… - Environmental …, 2020 - Elsevier
Antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in the environment are an exposure risk to humans and
animals and is emerging as a global public health concern. In this study, mercury (Hg) …

Critical mercury concentration in tropical soils: impact on plants and soil biological attributes

FRD Lima, GC Martins, AO Silva, ICF Vasques… - Science of the Total …, 2019 - Elsevier
Mercury is a toxic element that becomes a problem when present at high concentrations in
soils. Mercury toxicity in soils varies depending on chemical species, concentration …

Advancing soil ecological risk assessments for petroleum hydrocarbon contaminated soils in Canada: Persistence, organic carbon normalization and relevance of …

A Gainer, K Bresee, N Hogan, SD Siciliano - Science of the total …, 2019 - Elsevier
Sediment toxicity studies and ecological risk assessments on organic contaminants routinely
apply organic carbon normalization to toxicity data; however, no studies examine its …

Emerging insights into the application of metal-organic framework (MOF)-based materials for electrochemical heavy metal ion detection

X Guo, S Feng, Y Peng, B Li, J Zhao, H Xu, X Meng… - Food Chemistry, 2024 - Elsevier
Heavy metal ions are one of the main sources of water pollution, which has become a major
global problem. Given the growing need for heavy metal ion detection, electrochemical …